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...Bureau of Internal Revenue to be national executive director. While Chairman Raskob lay low?except to provide money and to answer "Libelous!" last week to an attack on his personal financial behavior during and since the 1929 stock crash?the actual work of the Democrats was done by Jouett Shouse, 51, the horse-faced, horse-minded, Kentucky-born Kansas City lawyer who was called in to be national executive committee chairman...
...Jouett Shouse was at the racetrack in Havre de Grace, Md. the day they called him to help the Democracy. He was there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress...
...unhesitatingly make the prediction that the House of Representatives will show a Democratic majority-Chairman Jouett Shouse of Democratic Executive Committee...
Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
Kentucky-born Jouett Shouse, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, has sporting instincts. He bets on horse-races and elections. Often he loses. His efforts this year to win the House of Representatives for his party is a man-sized political gamble on which wagers will be made. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals revealed Democrat Shouse's efforts to deduct his betting losses from his back income tax returns...